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Which one of Myung's songs lyrics do you like the most?

Learning to Live
22 (35.5%)
Lifting Shadows off A Dream
7 (11.3%)
Trial of Tears
17 (27.4%)
Fatal Tragedy
3 (4.8%)
Breaking all Illusions
10 (16.1%)
Surrender to Reason
2 (3.2%)
March of the Tyrant
1 (1.6%)

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Offline Wither

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John Myung's songs?
« on: March 20, 2016, 10:53:58 PM »
Personally it's a big tie with Learning to Live, Trial of Tears, and Breaking All Illusions.
The lyrics are all deep, but I'm going to have to give this to Trial of Tears for it's really cool atmosphere.
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2016, 12:29:22 AM »
Wow, it's hard! I voted "Surrender To Reason", but the first two options are also among my favourites (I just realized I don't think I've done a Top 10 DT songs or whatever, and I do a lot of lists, like you said you do).
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2016, 12:32:26 AM »
Easy pick for me, with Trial of Tears.
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2016, 02:08:34 AM »
BAI was written by Petrucci, not Myung iirc.
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2016, 03:16:44 AM »
Quote from: IDontNotDoThings on March 21, 2016, 02:08:34 AM
BAI was written by Petrucci, not Myung iirc.

I believe it has a co-credit, with Petrucci helping Myung, but in essence it's a Myung lyric.
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2016, 03:29:34 AM »
Well BAI is my favorite DT song so this is no contest at all. With the exception of LTL, I don't think any of these are even in my top 30-35 of DT songs.
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2016, 07:05:26 AM »
ToT
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2016, 07:09:10 AM »
Quote from: mikeyd23 on March 21, 2016, 07:05:26 AM
ToT

I'm with you. I love all of thise (except for one from Majesty demos) but ToT is my favorite song.
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2016, 07:53:13 AM »
My favorite DT song is Learning to Live, so there you go.

Of this list, March of the Tyrant is fairly bad, and Surrender to Reason is OK.  The rest are amazing.
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2016, 08:26:35 AM »
Learning To Live and Trial of Tears are close, but I give the edge to the former.  Surrender To Reason is probably my #3.  I don't care for the lyrics on Breaking All Illusions at all.  But the music is so good that that alone carries the song.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2016, 12:37:43 PM »
A very difficult choice between Learning to Live and Trail of Tears, I chose the latter 'cause it gives poetic voice to an everyday's man doing something so uneventful like walking through New York while it rains.

Ok, the song is more than that, but still, you would think something about "d'uh it's raining" would be so boring, and instead it's so captivating and immersive.
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« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2016, 01:45:17 PM »
"Through nature inflexible grace, Im learning to live"

If I had to tattoo a song lyrics on myself it would be that sentence. Its very inspiring imo.
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2016, 01:53:50 PM »
Learning to live

All of them are fantastic, though, besides Surrender to reason which is just OK. I haven't heard the one from Majesty demos, to be honest.
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2016, 02:07:39 PM »
Quote from: MirrorMask on March 21, 2016, 12:37:43 PM
A very difficult choice between Learning to Live and Trail of Tears, I chose the latter 'cause it gives poetic voice to an everyday's man doing something so uneventful like walking through New York while it rains.

Ok, the song is more than that, but still, you would think something about "d'uh it's raining" would be so boring, and instead it's so captivating and immersive.

I'll have to agree with this. The climax of the song really captures the unique and special atmosphere of walking through a city when it's raining, which is something that I've done many times and that is something that I usually enjoy. And, yeah, I also agree that JM's brilliance in this case is that he makes something so seemingly uneventful become so emotional and important (though JP/MP/KS/JLB also help essentially with the emotional crescendo at the end of the song, of course).
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Re: John Myung's songs?
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2016, 02:18:17 PM »
I voted STR, but honestly it's really hardto pick one.
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« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2016, 02:54:30 PM »
Fatal Tragedy..

Just ahead of BAI and StR.. The rest is very mediocre, although MotT has its parts..
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